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My LaScala's do not sound as bright as they use to.

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wdecho

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So fearing I may have blown my tweeters I decided to hook up one of my signal generators to my speakers and I found I cannot hear anything over 10Khz now at 77 years old. I can hear 8,800hz or 8,900hz pretty good but nothing after that.

Sucks getting old. Nothing works like it use to. Anyone else in the same boat?
 
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Lost everything above 2K on the left side recently, like within the last 24 months. Drs. (Plural) apparently don't believe a fungus can live amongst your cochlea.
 
My hearing is still good. So many I’ve known and loved, both younger and older than I, have lost so much or have passed on. Grateful every day for what still works and for what I can still do. I’m even happy these days to vacuum the floors and mow the lawn.
 
I’m 56 and last time I checked, i couldn’t hear over 9750Hz thanks to growing up on a farm, army artillery, playing in bands, riding motorcycles, working in pro racing and coaching track days, as well as a 32 year career in residential construction. I came relatively late to wearing hearing protection.
 
I'm lucky at 76 I've always used ear plugs at work and in under my helmet when riding the motorcycle. My hearing stops at 12 k or so at 85 dB, 14k at 90 dB. I still hear some of K-77-M tweeters on my 79 Cornwalls. I've used a SPL dB meter for 30 of the 47 years I've owned my Cornwalls. Raising 4 children kept the volume down in my 20/30s. Miracle I'm still alive 6 decades on motorcycles and I'm still riding. I keep fit mow, edge etc the yard, maintenance on the vehicles and the house. Use it or lose it as they day. I'm thankful every morning I wake up.
 
My hearing seems okay, but at 67 I’m sure it isn’t. I do have a touch of very high pitched tinnitus in my left ear that I can mostly ignore - so I’m lucky there for now.

I remember when I joined the Klipsch forum in early 2000 there was always a lot of talk about how to “tame the highs”. There were several mods for this and it seemed almost everyone was using them.

I’m getting ready to do some Chorus II, and he doesn’t want an L-pad for his LMAHL. I’m like,’”sure, I get it.”

Some of us can probably get by with some EQ if the damage isn’t to bad.
 
I have tinnitus in both years for many years (very prominate) that I also can mostly ignore.

For years I thought that the high pitched noise was normal, as I grew older I discovered that condition is not normal and called tinnitus.
Furthermore I also realized that there is no cure for it so I never mentioned it to my Dr.

It sucks getting old on the other hand I am still relativey healthy at 64.
 
Racing motorcycles guns 1970s rock concerts and big speakers cranked...I should be deaf. Starts to fade @12kHz and done 14kHz or so. I wear protection but not as often as I should. Honestly I forget.
 
I don't hear much over 10K anymore either, but the good news is that it's one octave and there's not a lot of content up there. I can still hear everything else well, and am more adept at recognizing what's happening now than I was when I could hear 20Khz.
 
Well I'm 61 and my LaScala have SMAHL tweeters, A55G mids and re-capped AA crossovers which make things sound pretty good to me. I'm pretty sure my hearing is limited above 10K but the fact that I can still enjoy music makes me pretty happy.
 
Checking the frequency range of the human voice and instruments, google, AI, there is not much after 5Khz except the harmonics. The sparkle is what I am missing. I thought I might have blown my tweeters but found it is just getting old. I can remember when younger hearing the master tape hiss start before the music on vinyl. I have been trying to hear that again without success. I do not hear that anymore. My hearing is still very good below 10khz thankfully. I have been planning on checking my high frequency range for a number of months and decided yesterday was the day. At least now I know my tweeters are OK, I can hear them below 10khz, working fine. A lot of things do not work as they use to or should when you reach 77 years old. I am not really complaining, I figured as much.

I have a battery powered dog repeller which is supposed to be above human hearing but I have a grandson that cringes if I use it in his presence just like the two dogs I have.
 
I can remember a few years back when my friend and I, my age, were listening to a new amplifier I had built and at the same time I was experimenting with different crossover designs for my speakers and my tweeters were accidently not hooked up and neither one of us noticed. That was another sign my hearing was not what it use to be. He was, before he died, the sound man for local bands.

I am thankful I still have the hearing I still have. Having a lot of old farts on this section of the forum I thought I would post my results and many thanks for the replies. Makes me feel better knowing there are plenty in the same boat as myself.
 
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